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NEWS 
Mideast Quartet and G8 call on Israel to halt settlements Mideast Quartet and G8 call on Israel to halt settlements
'We are urging Israeli authorities to stop settlements including natural growth and remove all these blocks and open the crossings,' UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told a news conference after a meeting in Trieste, Italy.
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  World’s first ‘Museum of the Jewish people’ to open in Tel Aviv in 2012
The project was announced in Tel Aviv this week at a meeting of the Board of Governors of Beth Hatefutsoth.
  Bernard Madoff awaits moment of truth
The Wall Street swindler faces a federal judge who could sentence him to as much as 150 years in prison.
  Conference on return of Jewish assets starts in Prague
The conference is held more than ten years after 44 countries pledged in Washington to go ahead with assets restitution.
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Cornerstone laid for Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw
Tel Aviv Museum of Art reconstructs 1907 Berlin exhibition of Jewish artists from across Europe
Israeli president makes landmark Kazakhstan visit
Muhammed Cartoons
Pressure mounts on Italian minister to resign after Libya unrest
European Jewish group to file complaint against Ahmadinejad in The Hague
Israel organises counter-cartoon contest
German writer likens Mohammed cartoons to Nazi caricatures
Austria’s EU presidency condemns Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust statements
“Publishing Holocaust cartoons may be educational”
Cartoons: EU to push for voluntary media code
"Muhammad overflown by fundamentalists"
100 Jewish cantors to sing in historic concert in Poland
Cantors from around the globe including the US, Canada, various European countries and Israel are to take part in the June 30th performance.
Natan Sharansky becomes new head of Jewish Agency for Israel
Former minister and human rights activists Natan Sharansky was unanimously elected Thursday chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive by the Board of Governors in Jerusalem.
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Day in history
 
3 July 1475
 
Meshullam Cusi established the first Hebrew press in Italy at Piove di Sacco near Padua and printed Jacob b. Asher’s Arbah Turim.
 
The same year he also printed a Slichot (prayers for the Days of Repentance).

 
Picture of the week

Gilad Shalit: 3 years in capitivity

 
Latest Articles
European Jewish body calls on EU to pull its ambassadors from Iran
Sweden starts six-month EU presidency with institutional problems
Unsolved Madoff mystery: Where did all the money go?
Prosecutor seeks life for French gang leader for murder of Ilan Halimi
Cornerstone laid for Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw
Tel Aviv Museum of Art reconstructs 1907 Berlin exhibition of Jewish artists from across Europe
Israeli president makes landmark Kazakhstan visit